Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection

aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  equal-earth.com/equal-earth-projection.html

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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can get this with a few clicks

  Equal Earth is an equal-area (equivalent) projection. Shapes, directions, angles, and distances are distorted and stretched north-south in tropical and mid-latitude areas. Nearer the poles, features are compressed in the north-south direction. Distortion values are symmetric across the equator and the central meridian.

  and there’s a paper but the link requires access

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